Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced plans to hold legislative elections on May 22 and presidential polls on July 31, for the first time in 15 years. Concerns, however, have been rising that Israel might hinder the vote in the occupied East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians...

Organizers of the Cannes film festival announced Wednesday new dates for the event that will now be held in July. After the global lockdown brought on by the coronavirus pandemic forced organizers to cancel last year’s event, they said the festival will keep its rendezvous this year....

Facebook capped a tumultuous 2020 with soaring earnings in the final quarter, but the company forecast challenges in 2021 that include a coming privacy update by Apple that could limit the social network's ad targeting capabilities. The Apple move drew a rare public rebuke from Facebook CEO...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Jewish prayer for the souls of the people murdered in the Holocaust echoed Wednesday over where the Warsaw ghetto stood during World War II as a world paused by the coronavirus pandemic observed the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Most International...